Greenhouse Effect
Greenhouse gases do this to the climate/temperature
What is to make it hotter/warmer?
Releases CO2
What is volcanoes and meteors/both?
After the Industrial Revolution there was a rise in this gas in the atmosphere which was related to a rise in average global temperature
What is Carbon Dioxide?
Animals get carbon by _______
What are eating plants and eating animals that eat plants?
The difference between climate and weather(how long or short is it)
What is long-term vs short-term?
Provides the initial energy for the greenhouse effect
What is the sun?
Releases a large amount of material into the atmosphere at once
What is a meteor?
The action of clearing a wide area of trees
What is deforestation?
Name 2 ways that carbon can be returned to the atmosphere
What are respiration, decomposition, combustion, and volcanic activity?
Ocean currents bring ______ water to the equator, and _____ water to the poles
What are cold and warm/hot?
Name 3 Greenhouse Gases
What are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and/or ozone, etc.?
Has a greater long-term effect
What is a volcano?
Human activity that has the greatest effect on climate change
What is burning fossil fuels?
The biological carbon cycle is (speed)____ and the geological carbon cycle is (speed)_____
What are fast and slow?
Name 4 effects of climate change
What are hotter temperatures, more severe storms, increased drought, a rising ocean, loss of species/crops, etc.?
Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, like carbon dioxide and water vapor, absorb some of this infrared _______
What is radiation?
Causes short-term cooling and long-term warming
What are volcanoes and meteors/both?
Human activity that releases the most methane
What is raising livestock?
Name 3 examples of natural carbon sinks
What are the ocean, forests, and soil?
The tipping point(temperature) for climate change
What is 1.5 degrees Celsius?
Greenhouse gases are _________ in the atmosphere
What are substances?
Releases Sulfur Dioxide(SO2)
Volcano
Greenhouse gas released from industrial and agricultural processes
What is nitrous oxide?
The carbon cycle is a ______ process where carbon atoms move between various
What is chemical?
Increasing carbon in oceans
What is Ocean Acidification?